Comb



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COMB

Filed NOV. 25, 1938 Eli 6 (WW?) I g INVENTOR. BY 2 a;

$3 ATTORNEY.

Patented Jan. 2, 1940 ATET OFFECE COMB Daniel D. Whyte, New York, N. Y., assignor to Injection Moulding Corp., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 25, 1938, Serial No. 242,188

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in combs, being particularly directed to a novel structure applicable for undulating hair or maintaining the contour of undulated hair.

Broadly, it is an object of this invention to provide for a comb, the teeth of which are so formed and spaced as to permit upon combing of hair for the distribution of strands of hair in undulated form or maintaining hitherto curled hair in undulated form.

Specifically, it is an object of this invention to provide a comb, the contour and formation of the teeth of which provides for alternately spaced transverse zones bounded by constrictions, whereby upon combing hair in undulated or nonundulated form strands of hair are ripped at spaced sections along their length while the hair intermediate such spaced sections is caused to assume or maintain an undulated formation.

These and other advantages, capabilities and features of the invention will appear from the subjoined detailed description of one specific embodiment thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a comb embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged front elevation of a portion of the comb.

Figure 3 is an end elevation in section taken along lines 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a plan view in section taken along lines 4-4 of Figure 2.

Referring to the reference characters in the drawing, numeral Ill represents the head or top of the plastic comb, having integral therewith transversely extending spaced teeth I I, such teeth being undulated in a vertical plane for a portion of their length to define an arcuate longitudinal zone.

As shown in detail in Figures 2 and 4, each of the tooth portions in arcuate zone is shaped, in the molding operation or by stamping after molding and while the material is still in plastic state, to provide alternate wide fiat depressed sections E3 in the vertical plane, spaced by sections I4 having a normal narrow arcuate formation in the same plane. By this construction there is formed in the spacing zone between adjacent teeth, alternate restricted areas l5 leading to areas Hi defining the normal spacing between teeth.

In use, the comb functions in the following 5 manner: as the strands of hair, whether previously undulated or not, are directed within the spacing zones between the respective teeth, the same may pass readily through the normal spacing areas it towards the restricted areas I5, as the comb is displaced and as the sections along the length of the hair strands enter into the restricted areas [5 defined by the adjacent fiattened tooth sections l3 the same are clamped. Since the comb in use is essentially drawn through hair in previously combed or set state, either in undulated condition or following the contour of the head, the teeth thereof necessarily move along the length of the hair strands so as to provide for the clamping in the restricted areas I5 of spaced sections of the hair strands, that portion between such clamped spaced sections being set or maintained in undulated or curled contours.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claim.

I claim:

In a comb, a head, a series of spaced teeth extending transversely from said head, each of said teeth having a section along its length of alternately narrow and wide formation, adjacent teeth having similar sections, thereby defining respectively a series of wide and narrow spacing zones between adjacent teeth, the wide spacing zones between the teeth providing for the passage of strands of hair, and the teeth at their widened portions defining the narrow zones serving to clamp the strands of hair, the said sections of wide and narrow formation on the teeth being formed within an arcuate zone extending longitudinally across the teeth.

DANIEL D. WHYTE. 

